STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2185

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2868
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2868 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
     DISPOSAL SURCHARGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the disposal
surcharge to 60 cents per ton for all disposal facilities except
permitted inert and construction and demolition waste disposal
facilities.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was received from the
Department of Health and the Sierra Club.  Testimony in
opposition to the measure was received from the City and County
of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services.  The Tax
Foundation of Hawaii submitted comments on the measure. 

     The current disposal surcharge is 35 cents per ton; the
second lowest in the nation.  This measure raises the surcharge
to 60 cents per ton.  In light of the 160 percent increase in
permit applications and 1,200 percent increase in complaints,
your Committee believes that the increase is necessary to raise
additional funds to support permitting, monitoring, enforcement,
and alternative waste management.

     Your Committee made technical, nonsubstantive changes to
reflect preferred drafting style.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2868, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2868,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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